a sleigh for transporting people or goods along a stage route.
- 1912  On the stage sleigh from Ashcroft this person got froze, which mostly happens to a tenderfoot, who'd rather freeze like a man than run behind like a dog.
- 1955  At two o'clock on the morning of the appointed day the musical bells of the stage sled, the French-Canadian carriole, came sounding down his street and stopped before his door.